Supposedly leaked roadmap presentation slides reveal the next Intel Haswell product, code-named Haswell-E-- an update on the company's high-end desktop (HEDT) platform complete with more physical cores among other improvements.
According to VR-Zone Haswell-E does away with 4-core CPUs in favour of 6- and 8-core chips with up to 20MB of L3 cache built using the 22nm process.
Hyper Threading gives the CPU a maximum of 16 logical cores, while maximum TDP ranges from 130W to 140W.
The desktop platform is supposed to rely on the "Wellsburg" motherboard chipset, with the LGA2011-3 socket handling quad-channel DDR4 RAM (2133MHz maximum clock speed, up to one DIMM per channel).
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